Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here's a letter from Ella Logan [Sons O' Fun, Show Time, et al.] to her husband, Writer-Producer Fred Finklehoffe. She's singing to the soldiers in Italy and has been entertaining the soldiers abroad-a total of nine months in the war. I think Ella is the Elsie Janis of this...
...naturalized citizen, and a Lutheran pastor for more than 20 years in northern New Jersey, until a trip to Germany in 1941. In Berlin, said the FBI, he had talked with Walter Kappe, boss of the Nazi saboteur school. When he returned to the U.S. (via Barcelona, nine days after Pearl Harbor) he quit the pulpit, became a bookkeeper...
Hitler had promised his people that he would drive Eisenhower off the beaches in nine hours. The Nazis were not even trying to drive him off after nine days. And that was the story for the rest of the battle of France. Eisenhower was always able to take more than Hitler could give...
...King of Kings, Lion of Judah, Emperor of Ethiopia, looked upon his savage subjects with satisfaction. In his hands after twelve long months was a new agreement, signed & sealed by the British Minister. For the first time since the Italians swooped on Ethiopia like a buzzing, deadly locust swarm nine years ago, his country was again independent, or close...
...fugitive flyers from Bataan and Java, including the early-famed Buzz Wagner, the Eighth and Ninth squadrons followed the Seventh northward, reaching Darwin bases in time for the big Japanese raid on April 25. In that first real baptism of fire, the Forty-niners bagged 24 Jap bombers and nine fighters without suffering a single loss. By Aug. 1, six months after arriving in Australia, they had run their score to 60, had lost only three pilots. On Aug. 12 they received a Presidential unit citation, then plunged into the battle for New Guinea...